Judiciary
Nearly 200 former judges denounce claim that courts are ignoring Supreme Court orders
A group of nearly 200 former judges signed an amicus brief denouncing claims that lower courts are ignoring Supreme Court orders (Kent Nishimura for The Washington Post.)
A group of more than 175 former federal and state judges have called out the Trump administration for claiming that district courts are flouting the U.S. Supreme Court’s orders, according to The National Law Journal.
The ex-judges comments were part of amicus brief in a pending Supreme Court case over the temporary protected status of Syrian nationals in the United States. In the brief, the judges described President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s attacks on judges as an “extraordinary assault” on the judicial branch, according to the Journal story.
Since Trump began his second term, the Supreme Court has handed down many emergency orders pausing lower court rulings against the administration’s policies. While the court has provided reasoning in some cases, there were other instances in which it granted the administration’s stay requests in short, unexplained orders, according to the story.
The brief said that there have been many cases in in which the president, attorney general, and other executive branch officials “have assailed judges in TPS and other cases for ostensibly ignoring the law—attacks that undermine the public’s confidence in the courts and judges across the land.”
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